ok all - i have had 10 years of all weather commuting, and enough is enough with the cold hands.
i dont like winter gloves or liners as i find them too restrictive. and i dont want heated grips as my battery always seems to play up in winter, as it is with the alarm.
so my question is - are muffs any good? do they actually work?
i can put up with the looking like a tart bit of em, if they are gonna allow me to feel my hands by the time i get home, but am i going to be looking like a tart, and still have cold hands???
I know a few peole who have used them - on all sorts of bikes. They have the last laugh as they all seem to love them. Some use them in conjunction with heated grips too.
Okay they look cr@p but so what! Your hands are warm. Not my cup of tea but as I say if it’s what you want they will work!
i used to have them when i used to comute 40 miles each way to work .i found them great and kept my hands nice and warm if i had to comute again i would get them
i personally would ditch the idea of the handlebar muffs and go for a decent set of winter gloves, ie a set of Hein Gerike pathans. The muffs look awful, and they get in the way
Charly is right there gay don’t do it to yourself.
Muffs do work our couriers customers love them this week a guy came in for his second pair as another courier had stolen them when he parked up, the thief was kind enough to leave a note telling him they were nicked by a fellow courier and thanked him lol
If your going to get a pair of Hien Gericke winter gloves do it right and get the best Master Fours are Hien Gericke’s top of the range winter gloves and im sure they’re more than a match for the muffs.
If you need them don’t worry what anyone else thinks, who care’s Last October I was coming back from MCN live Skegness at 5 am got about 20 miles when the frost bite started taking, stopped at the services and made a pair of muffs from newspapers and tape ugly as hell but worked a treat, needless to say any purpose made muffs would look a darn site more attractive than they did, but did I care on that frost bitten October morning.
I used to use these on my daily commute in the winter (I have crap circulation) and they weren’t that good. They’re better than nothing but nowhere near as good as a pair of decent winter gloves.
Heated grips are useless if u comute in town, fingers etc off the grips and they freeze, I do a 40 mile commute as well evryday, have bought sum muffs, only used them once, as on motorway when ur doing any speed, the wind blew them against the clutch n brake levers, and wasnt keen on having light pressure against them. Bought a pair of HG 2 fingered gloves that MCN recommended, and can highly recommend them.
If I cud fit a pair of muffs that didnt rest on the levers I’d def have them, nothing worse than cold fingers! dont think i’d have em if i rode a sports bike to work tho, looks bit naff!
Last year I had muffs and heated grips, and wore my summer gloves throughout the whole of the winter with toasty-warm hands. No probs whatsoever. This year however, style has got the better of me and I’ve gone for moto x style handguards, but I know that no way will they be anywhere near as warm as the muffs.
Ya CANNOT beat muffs and heated grips together for keeping yer digits warm in the winter…Fact. (Well, maybe muffs, grips and heated gloves might beat it but its hardly gonna be Alaskan weather here…is it?? )
I use Muffs all the time. Tip of the day, remove the bar weight screw, pop a small hole in the muff and thread the screw throught the muff and back through the bar weith, this will
a) stop them moving around
b) stop people knicking them…is you PM you email, I will send you a Pic / diagram…
A good glove is better over a muff any day!
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